Poems: A Reading

Poet Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello examines the cultural and filial duties that inform both grief and wanderlust for the immigrant in Hour of the Ox, winner of the Donald Hall Prize. In Rapture: Poems, winner of the Walt Whitman Award for poetry, Sjohnna McCray movingly recounts a life born out of wartime to a Korean mother and an American father serving during the Vietnam War. Noah Warren’s collection of poetry, The Destroyer in the Glass, the 110th recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, explores universal themes of isolation and the desire for human connection.